Every time God sends a line of killer tornadoes through the Deep South (known here in the U.S. as The Bible Belt) I wait in vain for religious conservatives to blame the victims. And I've had numerous opportunities; for every one Sandy there are a thousand Alabama tornadoes. Go figure, huh?

In fact if turn back to our own life we will see that when we do something wrong we feel the punishment which comes with the pain of regret on the contary when we do something good we feel an happiness deeply in our heart. In the nature and mood of an innocent child you can see it clearly without almost any exception but of course by the time while we grow up we began to loose some of our sensivity.
Besides remember the historical such events for instance pompei in italy.For the social big crimes the punishment is also excuted widely including whole of that people living there.

The "Syrian Armed Forces Network" people must have been talking to Limbaugh. After all, he insinuated that Obama was able to orchestrate a massive international conspiracy and apparently change the weather in order to send a hurricane towards Florida just in time to disrupt the Republican national convention. Or maybe that means that Obama is in league with Iran and Assad and using this weather technology to help bring about his radical Muslim takeover of America....?

Well,i want to admit that God was behind Sandy to the infidels as those bastards pretend.
I would like to know what did God do to the Arabs as a sign of Gratitude,i guess ,or maybe the followings ,and correct me if i am wrong:
1/famine and drought in some countries?
2/Sectarian wars in many countries in the Middle East?
3/A large majority of Arab youth with no jobs or skills?
4/Illiteracy omnipresente in many Arab and Muslim countries?
5/The Six Days war for Egypt ,Jordan,..
6/These Infidels took Iraq in 3 weeks.
7/The nice treatment of Women and kids in most of the Arab and Moslem world?
And ,beleive me,a long list that i can't even like to think about it since i live in the Middle East and i am ashamed of writing more.
Finally,if these Islamists Dogs have something to say,it is better for them to thank God who created the infidels who provided them with guns so they can shoot each other,something they love to do.

There is a reason that none of the eastern religions such a Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikkhism,Confuciousim are mentioned in this post. The semitic religions like Judaism, Christianity & Islam are mostly driven by fear of God, who is ever ready to punish the infidels. Definition of these infidels changes from time to time. Its time that religious education is made more inclusive..

Well Buddhism is just a branch of Hinduism.. and Hinduism itself is not defined as religion.. its a way you live your life.. Hinduism/ Buddhism is about finding your own destiny or infact making your own destiny and believing in Law of Karma.. There are so many Western Hindus too.. the essential difference between Hindusim/ Buddism & Semitic religion is - Semitic religions insist on them being the TH ONLY TRUE path and belief in some messenger.. on the other hand eastern thoughts are more focused on going to final DESTINATION & paths are not important and belief in reincarnation & law of Karma..

The more 'ignorant' the population … that is, lacking in secular education … the more they 'buy' into the 'prophesies' of the religious obscurantists!

In Simon Winchester's book … Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 188 he writes:

"In the case of Krakatoa, the Muslim prelates of Java first made this connection. The eruption that had killed so many and had ruined so much was clearly, they said, the work of Allah - a divine who was, so the mullahs told their Javanese congregations of the day, supremely irritated that so many of their number were passively allowing themselves to be ruled by white infidel outsiders, the Dutch. To appease the sorely tried Allah, the mullahs said, the Dutch had to be killed and their influence expunged. Rise up, they advised.

And so they did - in a piecemeal fashion at first, in an organised rebellion five years later, and in a measured and defiant way in the decades that followed. The Dutch were eventually forced to leave; Indonesia, born out of the Hollanders' imperial fiefdom, remains today the world's most populous Islamic nation. Krakatoa was not the cause of the birth of Indonesia, far from it; but it was a sign, a trigger, and it remains a significant moment in Indonesian political history for that very reason."

I see you mention Simon Winchester's Krakatoa which I've had on my book shelf for several years but havn't read. I know absolutly nothing of the Dutch's colonial history in Indonesia or other areas of the world such as the carribbean. I was surprised last year on a vacation to a carribbean island to find out it was/is dutch owned. Do you know of other good books that give a good history of this?

No … but I did visit St. Kitts once before … its an island in a chain close to the former Dutch island of St. Maarten … the Caribbean was a prime playing ground for the Colonial Powers … as I recall … St. Kitts & Nevis … were French before the British claimed them …

"How about homes damaged by strong winds?"
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Most homes didn't get damaged. So there were various messages for various individuals like "don't neglect to cut these dead branches and sick trees, slackers!", "don't buy houses from edgy individuals, them did the bare minimum and even less if they can get away with it, fools!", "All things will broke at some point, fix they quickly when they do, stupids!", "don't get obsessed with the good view, check if the location is easily floodable too, poseurs!", etc.
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"How about drought?"
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Drought is not a problem everywhere in the world. If you live in a drought prone area, don't get surprise to get drought. "There will be good time and there will be bad time, save in good time (water, money, food, etc) so you won't get in trouble in bad ones, airheads!"
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Hope is a virtue, but prudence is one too. If you are imprudent, don't be surprise to rip the concequences. God don't safe overconfident people from themselves, no matter how much they pray. He likes to creat candidates for Darwin Awards.

To the religious fundamentalists of all flavours, hurricanes (or any other natural disaster) hitting densly populated area's, with the ensuing media coverage, will obviously hit the maximum number of sinners in whichever sin is particularly obnoxious to your firmly held belief. Presumably, natural disasters that hit the middle of nowhere are simply god's target practice.

Divine wrath?
It appears like that. The pattern of global warming indicates that the biggest poluters will be punished most severely. Severe drought and heavy hurricanes & typoons will hit America and China more often. You will see even bigger ones hitting America and China. Impact on Northern Europe is not yet clear, because ice age cuased by disruption from the underwater current will happen abruptly.
I don't know when those global warming deniars will learn the truth.

It is the equatorial countries that will be hit the hardest. They are already hot, susceptible to flooding from heavy rainfalls, and largely ill-equipped to deal with environmental calamities due to their third-world economic status.

The United States is no stranger to extreme weather, is well equipped to handle weather anomalies, and has enough land-mass and varied climatic regions that it would never be over-run on a nation-wide basis.

Have to agree...whatever you believe, it is kind of sad the country's that will do "the best" a.k.a the least poorly under climate change are those that have both contributed the most to its cause and those that are most able to handle severe weather. It is country's such as Bangladesh, Haiti, the Maldives, Niger and Mali among others, that are going to be suffering the brunt of the global change in climate and weather patterns.